Child&#39;s crib



Patented Dec. 7, 1926,

- vsi/IIL ANDERSON,r or sr. ratti., ialnnnspfra.

rCI-IILDS CRIB.

Application sied september 18, 1925. seran No. 57,198.

This invention relates to a collapsible crib for children and consists in the improvements hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is an end elevation of the improved crib.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the crib.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the crib in numerals, 10, 10, designate the skeletoned end sections of the crib and having corner posts 11 normally upright and standing on the floor 12. The lower portion of each corner post is provided with a vvertically disposed guide bar 13 on which is slidably mounted a hinge member 14 having an arm pivoted on a pintle 15 (see Figs. 4 and 5) comprising a part of a staple-like member 16 having three legs 17-18-19 secured in the corner of the spring frame 2O by nuts 21 or other means. Said frame 20 may be made of angle iron as in Fig. 6 or of wood as in Fig. 4, but in either case it is provided with depending legs 22 having casters 23 (shown in Figs. 2 and 3).

The staple like member forms also a second hinge pintle 24 (see Fi 4) for a hinge member 25 secured as at 2 in Fig. 5, one near each end of each side section 26 of the crib and near the bottom edge thereof, while the upper corners of the side sections are each provided with means for securely latching it to the adjacent post of the end section, when the crib is set up for use.

Each of said corner latches4 is in the present drawing constructed as follows:

28-29--30 is a hasp off which 28 is the fixed part secured near the end of each top bar of the side walls or frames 26, 29 is the hinge and 30 the swingable plate or bar having two apertures 31-32 adapted to straddle two staples y31" and 32X fixed one in the side WallV top bar and the other in the adjacent corner post 11 of. the end section or on a projection 11u thereof. The hasp member 30has two lugs 33 with a bolt 34 slidable therein and having a spring 35 tending at all times to push thebolt into locking position in the staples 31 and 32X.

The netting 36 vin Fig. 6, which supports a mattress 37 in` Figs. 2 and 3, I prefer to make of insulated copper wire so as to be more durable in case it should be exposed to moisture. Its longitudinal edges are reinforced bydouble wires 38 slidable in ythe meshes of the netting. The netting 36 and wires 38 are suitably connected to the spring frame by helical coil springs l39 in tension.

Inthe use or operation of the crib the springY frame 20 and its casters are suspended from the floor by the corner latches 30, and when the crib is not in use the bolts 34 are retracted, hasps 30 swung back as 30x in Fig 5, the spring frame 20 and side sections 26, lowered untilthe casters 23l are on the floor, whereupon the side sections 26 are folded inwardly upon the mattress and the end sections 10--11 folded on top of the side sections as in Fig. 3. The entire structure, thus collapsed, is supportedv byy the casters and may readily be rolled out of the way under a regular full size bed,

into a closet or other convenient place.

lllhat I claim is:

1. A folding crib having end sections with i corner posts forming supporting means when the crib is set up for use, vertically disposed guide barsiixed on the lower por tions of saidA posts, a rectangular mattress frame with cast-ers, hinge members liXed at each corner of saidy mattress frame, sido scc,

tions of the crib lpivotally engaging said hinge members of the vmattress frame so as to be foldable upon the mattress, a latching device at each of theadjacent upper corners of the end and side sections to hold said sections together whenthey are in upright position, means on said end sections pivotally engaging the said hinge members of the mattress frame, said latter pivotal means being slidable on the vertical guide bars `of the end sections. 1

2. The structure specified in claim 1 in which said hinge members at each cornerA of the mattress frame comprise a staple havH ing three legs secured n the frame and its top formed with tWo horizontal pintles at right angles to each other.

3. The structure specified in claim l, in which each of the said corner latches consists of a staple or eye fixed near each other one on the end section and one on the side section, a hasp hingedly secured to the side section and having apertures for said staples, two perforated lugs With a spring-actuated kl0 bolt slidahle therein and arranged to enter said staples outside said apertures.

In testimony whereof I ahX my signature.

EMIL ANDERSGN. 

